ASSIGNMENT BRIEF - Drawing Mediums

You are required to submit an attractively presented A3 folio of drawings. This last drawing assessment should be treated as a design project as well as a drawing project.
Your work will be marked using the criteria set out in the standard Billy Blue marking sheet, so study it.

Each pair of drawings in section 2 to 5 below should be in strongly contrasting styles, as discussed in class. The subjects used inside and outside of class can be the same from week to week, or can vary.

1. Cover Sheet.

Attractively designed, and showing names of subject, student and teacher.

2. Pencil drawings

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn in class (2 hours approx.).

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn outside class (3 hours approx.).

3. Pen drawings

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn in class (2 hours approx.).

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn outside class (3 hours approx.).

 

4. Chalk drawings (light and dark chalk, on toned paper)

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn in class (2 hours approx.).

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn outside class (3 hours approx.).

 

5. Pastel drawings (can be mixed with markers or paint)

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn in class (2 hours approx.).

Two (2) drawings of a single subject, drawn outside class (3 hours approx.).

6. Experimental Drawing

Suite of experimental drawings as indicated in class. Select four drawings for display, and include the rest in a plastic sleeve (5 hours approx.).

 

DUE DATE:  Week 17 

 

 

Good general introductions to different mediums

Drawing Materials and Drawing Techniques - an Introduction (Michael Miller).
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/miller/guide/contents.html

 Loomis, Andrew, 1947. Creative Illustration.
http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/Andrew%20Loomis%20-%20Creative.Illustration.rar (archived pdf, 36 MB)

Compilation of articles on traditional drawing and drawing materials.
http://johnpeck.com/drawing.pdf

 

Pencil drawing

Guptill, Arthur Leighton, 1922. Sketching and Rendering in Pencil.
http://www.archive.org/details/sketchingrenderi00guptuoft

 

Ink Drawing

Maginnis, Charles. Pen Drawing, An Illustrated Treatise.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17502 (zipped html, 4.9 MB)

Sullivan, Edmund J. 1921. The Art Of Illustration.
http://www.archive.org/details/TheArtOfIllustration (pdf or DjVu)

Sullivan, Edmund J. 1922. Line - An Art Study
http://www.archive.org/details/lineartstudy00sulluoft (pdf or DjVu)

Ellwood, G. Montague, 1927. The Art Of Pen Drawing.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scripts/use_scripts/advnew/metainfo.cgi?&barcode=139999

 

Heinrich Kley drawings
http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/kley/

 

Norman Lindsay pen drawings
http://www.dropbears.com/a/artists/norman_lindsay.htm
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13993/20031012/central.dot.net.au/_frankl/pen.htm
 

 Chalk drawing

(For technique see general sites at top of page)

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon drawings
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=391&page=1&order=m

"The Erotic Frigidaire": The Academies of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Ephraim Rubenstein)
http://www.myamericanartist.com/2007/05/the_erotic_frig.html

 

Oil Pastels

Tools for Working with Oil Pastels
http://www.oilpastelsociety.com/OP%20Primer-Tools%20for%20working%20with%20Oil%20Pastels.pdf

Some additional basic tutorials
http://www.oilpastelsociety.com/pdfarchives.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/BachmanArt


 

Markers

 

Conceptart.org marker drawing thread
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=93678
 

Miscellaneous tutorials

Studio Tips (Doug Chiang)
http://www.dchiang.com/robota/studiotips/one/studiotips1.html

Quick Sketch Tutorial (John Frye)
http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/frye/index.html

Tutorial: Rendering with Marker and Airmarker (Wayne Westerman)
http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/050518airmarker-rendering/index.html

Rendering Tutorial (Allan Macdonald)
http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/vx220/

 

Marker Rendering with Mark Evans at MIT (large .mov files)
http://web.mit.edu/2.744/www/resourceMaterials/otherResources.html